Yarn-winding frame.



P. TAYLOR.

PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

YARN WINDING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1905.

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YARN-WINDING FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed May 17,1905. Serial No. 260,775,

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PnRoIvAL TAYLOR,

mill managers assistant, a subject ot the King of England, residing at 20 Ivy road, Ohorley Old Road, Smithills, Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Yarn-\Vinding Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention refers to improvements in or relating to yarn-winding frames employed in winding cotton, wool, worsted, silk, linen, and the like onto bobbins or tubes, and is designed to rotate the spindles carrying the said bobbins or tubes at a differential speed to receive the yarn at a uniform speed from empty to full bobbin or tube.

Figure 1 is a transverse elevation of my improvements in or relating to yarn-winding frames wherein the left-hand side shows the position of my invention when the bobbin or tube is almost full and the right-hand side shows the position of the apparatus when reset to commence winding on an empty bobbin or tube; Fig. 2, a plan of left-hand side of Fig. 1, showing two spindles; Fig. 3, a plan through line A B in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a sectional elevation of cone-drum and loose pulley on the lower portion of each windingspindle.

A represents the spindle-rail or bed-plate; B, bobbin or tube spindles; O, cone drum or pulley disposed on each spindle; D, spindles carrying wharves or band-pulleys E; F, tin or other driving cylinder or drum; Gr, spindle-driving bands; H, cone drums or pulleys disposed on the spindles D, carrying driving wharves or band-pulleys E; K, spindle-rail or bed-plate with footsteps for supporting the spindles B and D, and L shaft or center carrying the tin or other driving cylinder or drum F.

In all .the figures the same letters are em ployed to indicate corresponding parts.

The spindle-rails or bed-plates A and K are secured to the ordinary frame ends and intermediate supports of a winding-frame in the usual manner. The spindle-rails or bedplates A and K are provided, respectively, with the bushes a and the footsteps b, in which are loosely mounted the bobbin or tube spindles B, also the bushes c and the footstepsf, in which are loosely mounted the spindles D. To the lower portion of each spindle B, between the bushes a and the footsteps b, is mounted the cone-drum O, driven on in the usual manner or secured thereon in any convenient or desired manner. Above each cone-drum O and in close proximity to its upper end is located the loosely-mounted pulley I, supported by the sleeve J, carried from the spindle-rail or bed-plate A, being secured to the under side of the latter by the screws d. The loosely-mounted position of the said pulley I is determined between and by the flange e on the lower end of the sleeve J and the washer g, secured on the said sleeve by the set-screw h. The upper end of the sleeve J is formed with the flange 11, shrunk thereon and secured thereto by riveting the upper end over. Between the upper side of the flange i and the under side of the spindlerail A is located the leather washer k to prevent grit and the like being admitted to the inside of the sleeve J and interfering with the free rotary motion of theloose pulley I. Each cone-drum O is driven from the cone drums or pulleys H by means of the strap or belt M. Each spindle D, carrying the cone-drum H, is provided with the wharve or pulley E and is driven or rotated by the spindle-driving band G from the tin or other driving cylinder or drum F, mounted on the shaft or center L, the latter being rotated in the usual manner from any convenient part of the winding-frame by the usual mechanism. To the spindle-rail or bed-plate A is attached the fixing Z, to which is pivoted the double lever N with the slot O, in which is disposed the pin or center j, carrying the bowl or roller m, the latter being guided up and down vertically by the arms 0, sliding on the vertical slides n, secured in the spindle or bed-plate rail A and the spindle-rail or bed-plate K. The opposite end of the lever N to that of the slot O is provided with the self-adjusting balance-weight U to minimize the weight of the lever N in its rising action on the sliding strap-fork. To the double lever N is pivoted the rod P by the pin or center 1", the other end of the rod P being pivoted to the slide Q, by the pin or center 8. To the slide Q is secured by the screws 9 the fork-ended rod R, the said forked end having the bearings t, in which are mounted the center a, carrying the feeler S. The slide Q is mounted loosely on the support T, carried from the spindlerail A, and secured thereto by the screws ui. To insure of the bobbins or tubes V being stopped for dofling and other purposes or caused to cease rotating when the yarn being wound thereon breaks, the said bobbin or tube V is raised from the disk W, secured to the spindle B, by means of lifting or raising the outer end of the lever X, mounted on the centers Y, in the direction indicated by the arrow, the centers Y being secured to the upper side of the spindle-rail or bed-plate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. i

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I will now set forth the cycle of operation from empty to full bobbin or tube. When the empty bobbin or tube V is placed on the spindle B and disk W and the cotton and the like to be wound has been attached same, the strap M being disposed on the 'lower ends of the cone drums or pulleys C,

and H. The double lever N, arms 0, and the bowl or roller m are in the positions shown on the righthand side of Fig. 1, As the cotton and the like is being wound onto the bobbin or tube V and the layers thereon increase the external diameter of the contents the feeler S is gradually pushed or moved in an outwardly direction, which action slides the forked rod R, slide Q, and the rod P, and thus gradually raises the forked end of the lever N, the latter sliding the arms 0 with the bowl or roller m in an upward direction on the vertical slides n, thus moving the strap or belt M on the cone-pulleys C and H from the bottom to the top, so as to automatically reduce the rotary motion of the spindle B, according to the amount of cotton and the like wound onto the bobbin or tube V as the increasing diameter of the layers of yarn multiply thereon. When the bobbin or tube V is almost full of cotton and the like, as

shown on left-hand side of Fig. 1, the strap or belt M has reached the upper ends of the cone-drums O and II, and as the last few layers of cotton and the like are being wound onto the bobbin or tube V and by the action of the self-adjusting balance-weight U on the end of the lever N. the strap or belt M is traveled or passed onto the loose pulley I, thereby causing the spindle B and the bobbin or tube-V with its contents to cease rotating, in which case the same may be readily removed from the spindle B and replaced with an empty bobbin or tube V, and the feeler S and the strap or belt M returns automatically to the position shown on the right-hand side of Fig. 1.

Having now particularly described and as certained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. In a yarn-winding frame, a bobbin-carrying spindle, a cone-pulley connected with the spindle, a second cone-pulley, a drivingbelt between the cone-pulleys, means set in operation by the yarn as it is wound on the bobbin for moving the belt along said pulleys, and a pulley rotative around said spindle and onto which said belt is transferable.

, 2. In a yarn-winding frame, a bobbin-carrying spindle, a feeler movable by the yarn wound onto the bobbin, a slide to which the feeler is connected, a weighted lever having a linked connection with the slide, a pair of cone-pulleys and a belt connecting the same, one of the belt-pulleys being fastened to said spindle, and belt-shifting means operable by said weighted lever.

3. In a yarn-winding frame, a bobbin-carrying spindle, a feeler movable by the yarn wound onto the bobbin, a slide to which the feeler is connected, a pair of cone-pulleys, a

belt connecting said cone-pulleys, one of the pulleysbeing fastened to said spindle, a beltshifting device, a lever fulcrumed between its ends, one arm of the lever being provided with a weight and the other arm thereof hav ing a slot to receive a projecting part of the said belt-shifting device, and a link connected with the feeler-slide and with the slottedarm of the lever.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit nesses.

PERCIVAL TAYLOR. Witnesses:

EDMUND CHADWIOK, l JAS. STEWART BROADFOOT. 

